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Joanna Pinto

Joanna Pinto is a writer of short stories, plays, and interactive fiction. She is also a software engineer. She lives in Bristol, England, with her husband and son. More of her writing can be found at joannapintowriter.wordpress.com.

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Berries

The blackberries grow over the graves in the sailors' graveyard. The thick bushes wrap around stone anchors and granite coiled ropes, the leaves obscuring the dedications in English, Latin, and Norwegian. Children gather the berries and take them home to be baked into crumble…